Lexical Learning and Vocabulary Acquisition

 

Newsletter #12

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• Evaluating Lexical Simplification and Vocabulary Knowledge for Learners of French: Possibilities of Using the FLELex Resource

Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Anne-Laure Ligozat, and Cédrick Fairon

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Newsletter #11

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• Construction of Semantic Collocation Bank Based on Semantic Dependency Parsing

Shijun Liu, Yanqiu Shao, Yu Ding, and Lijuan Zheng

• Generating acceptable Arabic Core Vocabularies and Symbols for AAC users

E.A. Draffan, Mike Wald, Nawar Halabi, Ouadie Sabia, Wajdi Zaghouani, Amatullah Kadous, Amal Idris, Nadine Zeinoun, David Banes, and Dana Lawand

• Graph Theoretic Features of the Adult Mental lexicon Predict Language Production in Mandarin: Clustering Coefficient

Karl Neergaard and Chu-Ren Huang

• Large-scale Dictionary Construction via Pivot-based Statistical Machine Translation with Significance Pruning and Neural Network Features

Raj Dabre, Chenhui Chu, Fabien Cromieres, Toshiaki Nakazawa, and Sadao Kurohashi

• The word complexity measure (WCM) in early phonological development: A longitudinal study from birth to three years old

Li­mei Chen and Yi­-Hsiang Liu

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Newsletter #9

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• A Computational Study of Cross-situational Lexical Learning of Brazilian Portuguese

Pablo Faria

• Automatic Acquisition of Artifact Nouns in French

Xiaoqin Hu and Pierre-André Buvet

• Building a Lexicon of Formulaic Language for Language Learners

Julian Brooke, Adam Hammond, David Jacob, Vivian Tsang, Graeme Hirst, and Fraser Shein

• Which Distributional Cues Help the Most? Unsupervised Contexts Selection for Lexical Category Acquisition

Giovanni Cassani, Robert Grimm, Walter Daelemans, and Steven Gillis

• You are your words: Modeling Students’ Vocabulary Knowledge with Natural Language Processing Techniques

Laura K. Allen and Danielle McNamara

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Newsletter #8

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• A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Learning Topical Collocation Models

Zhendong Zhao, Lan Du, Benjamin Börschinger, John K Pate, and Mark Johnson

• A Generalisation of Lexical Functions for Composition in Distributional Semantics

Antoine Bride, Tim Van de Cruys, and Nicholas Asher

• Adding Semantics to Data-Driven Paraphrasing

Ellie Pavlick, Johan Bos, Malvina Nissim, Charley Beller, Benjamin Van Durme, and Chris Callison-Burch

• Vector-Space Calculation of Semantic Surprisal for Predicting Word Pronunciation Duration

Asad Sayeed, Stefan Fischer, and Vera Demberg

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Newsletter #7

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• Measuring the impact of translation on the accuracy and fluency of vocabulary acquisition of English

Oscar Saz, Yibin Lin, and Maxine Eskenazi

• Semantic Analysis-Enhanced Natural Language Interaction in Ubiquitous Learning

Dunwei Wen, Yan Gao, and Guangbing Yang

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